Opmanager Version History

[Malcolm Lozada]

OpManagers alarm correlation rule helps you correlate metrics of various entities. This helps you gain contextual information about your alarm patterns, reduce alarm noise to a greater extent and initiate preliminary fault remediation measures when the corresponding criteria have been breached.

OpManager now supports Dell VxRail monitoring. You can now have a single pane of glass visibility into all your VxRail clusters, vCenters, hosts, virtual machines, vSAN, and datastores. This helps you eliminate visibility gaps in your HCI infrastructure and understand its topology, while optimizing performance with real-time host and VM monitoring.

OpManager's custom integrations feature helps you seamlessly integrate with any third party application via webhooks or REST APIs. This helps you configure tailor-made integrations suited to your organization needs. By configuring integrations suited to your requirements, you can streamline your operational workflows, achieve comprehensive visibility into your troubleshooting efforts, optimize MTTR, and easily comply with security mandates and best practices.

OpManager can now be integrated with Microsoft Teams, a powerful business collaboration tool. Using this integration, network admins can send alerts from OpManager, to the concerned channels in Microsoft Teams. This speeds up the fault rectification process, thereby ensuring high service uptime. Learn More.

OpManager's new relationship sync feature allows users to sync Layer2 Maps to SDP OP CMDB and SDP OD CMDB while integrating OpManager with SDP OP as well as SDP OD. Enabling sync operation automatically builds CI relationship in CMDB. Hence users can now easily have a high level view of the network that further helps them with the impact analysis of the alerts raised.

OpManager's all new Root Cause Analysis feature enables you to visualize, analyze and correlate IT monitoring data of your devices, interfaces and URLs in a centralized console and accelerates the process of identifying the root cause of network issues.

OpManager now offers a in-house Network Path Analysis tool to visualize and continuously monitor your network path's performance, route pattern, overall path history and helps you identify any communication delays between the source and destination.

The Adaptive Thresholds feature enables users to optimize the efficiency of alerts, by dynamically modifying the threshold values for critical monitors using OpManager's Machine Learning-based predictive algorithms. This eliminates the need for manual intervention with deciding thresholds, and fully automates the process of studying complex datasets and arriving at feasible threshold values for each monitor.

With the upgrade to version 125415, users can configure TFA in OpManager and improve security. TFA requires users to enter a time-based OTP generated via authenticator apps to verify the credibility of the user.

The Agent-based monitoring feature allows you to scale your network monitoring capabilities across huge enterprise networks by installing a small "agent" software in your critical devices, enabling near real-time alerts and monitoring and also allowing OpManager to use available network resources more efficiently.

Proactively monitor the health and traffic across your VPN tunnels with OpManager's new VPN monitoring feature. OpManager supports prominent leaders in the VPN infrastructure market such as Cisco, Fortinet, and Watchguard right out of the box.

By adding your IPMI-compatible devices into OpManager using a dedicated IP address, you can monitor critical hardware metrics of your devices independent of its availability using the IPMI monitoring feature in OpManager.

Discover your whole Cisco ACI infrastructure and get a comprehensive view of your controller along with all the other components, such as the fabric, tenants, and endpoint groups. This serves as an unified tool to track the health and efficiency of the entire ACI environment and its associated components.

OpManager now supports Cisco switch stack monitoring for versions 125300 and above. A combined interface with a unified SNMP/CLI view, dedicated reports and personalized alerts is provided for all units in a stack that is discovered in OpManager.

OpManager's multi-vendor WLC monitoring module keeps your network intact by providing in-depth visibility of your wireless LAN controller (WLC) and helps you monitor the overall performance of your wireless network and its associated entities. Advanced monitoring of the SSIDs and access points can also be enabled for better monitoring and complete control over your network.

AD based discovery allows you to import and discover devices in your domain into OpManager at once. This saves a substantial amount of time and also decreases the chance of overlooking devices in your network. By default the AD discovery page will list Domain name and Domain Controller name of the OpManager installed server machine. The user will have to type in the username and password to connect to that domain and then discover those devices into OpManager.

The Groups feature in OpManager allows you to collect a bunch of devices or interfaces together for a more organized network infrastructure. Bulk actions such as associating notification profiles or monitors can be performed at once for these set of devices. Admin users will have complete access to groups whereas, operator users will have only Read-Only access.

OpManager now supports Slack integration. Avoid possible network downtime and see a measurable improvement in the average handling time for every network issue. Alerts from Slack can be configured in a notification profile or a step in an OpManager workflow task.

The number of device templates supported by OpManager over 11000 device types. They help with the initial configurations to classify the devices into pre-defined categories, and to associate monitors to them. You can modify existing templates or create your own as per your requirements.

AlarmsOne is now integrated with OpManager. AlarmsOne can be used to manage all your alarms in one console. It makes alert management simple with features like criteria-based alerting, noise reduction, on-call scheduling, escalations, etc.

Inspect packets to know network response time (NRT) and application response time (ART) to find out what is causing the latency issue. Also identify top bandwidth consumers by source, destination, and conversations. This feature is available as an add-on.

OpManager Standard/ Professional and Enterprise edtions include add-ons for managing bandwidth, configurations, firewall logs, IP addresses and switch ports. All these add-ons can be enabled by license and doesn't need any additional installation.

Automatically discover the newly added devices in the network with Scheduled Discovery. You can not only schedule, but create multiple profiles and choose the Discovery Rules that should apply to the devices and select the interfaces that you wish to discover.

You can now create performance dials for monitors that you wish and have them on the snapshot page. All you need to do is enable the "show dial" option for the corresponding monitor in device template.

Leveraging Cisco UCS XML API, UCS Monitoring add-on helps you to monitor all the Cisco UCSes and its components, in your data center. The UCS monitor includes a 2D relationship map that helps you to visualize the relationship among the hosts, clusters, and VMs present in the UCS.

HeatMaps in OpManager helps to visualize your entire network health in real-time from a single page. It uses color codes to communicate the severity of the monitored devices. HeatMap view can be accessed from the inventory section.

The new OpManager iPad app helps you to stay connected with your network on the move. It offers you a quick look at the availability and performance of your IT, customizable dashboards to suit your business needs and troubleshooting tools to resolve network glitches from anywhere. Learn More

Virtualization maps for VMware & Hyper-V provide a visual representation of relationships among hosts, clusters, and virtual machines. It helps you to gain quick visibility into your virtualized IT environment.

Enhanced Layer2 Network Mapping in OpManager now supports discovery of non cisco devices and end nodes (server, desktop). It also draws the Layer2 topology maps for the devices which are not discovered/ monitored in OpManager.

With OpManager's 3D Data Center Builder, you can virtually create an exact replica of your racks and data centers. You can embed the views of your designs on your NOC screens and monitor them 24x7. The 3D data center can also be viewed from iPad and other tablets. This helps you to quickly access your data center from anywhere, anytime. [Watch Video]

OpManager by default supports about 11400 device templates that help in classifying the devices based on the vendor and model. Each device model has a unique device template that defines the list of monitors (metrics, eg: CPU Utilization) that will be associated to a device for monitoring performance.

OpManager now includes applications monitoring plug-in for in-depth monitoring of mission critical applications that include SAP, Websphere, Sharepoint, etc. This helps you gain visibility into application performance also. [Watch Video]

OpManager now supports monitoring hardware parameters such as voltage, power, fan speed, and status of processors of all the leading vendors. You can also generate reports on hardware health. [Watch Video]

Upgrade a standalone instance of OpManager to an enterprise Probe on-the-fly. This doesn't require you to start from the scratch and discover the network all over again! You can start from where you left! The OpManager Enterprise Edition can monitor 30,000+ devices.

Ensure high availability of OpManager by setting up hot-standby for Probes. You can now enjoy 24/7, uninterrupted network monitoring. The primary Probe fails over to a secondary probe and fails back as soon as the primary is up and the data across the redundant instances are always synchronized.

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